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Washington University's crew, the only unbeaten eight on the river is the favorite to cop the varsity race over the three mile course. Princeton is the last's outstanding contender. Junior varsities and freshmen crews will also compete...
Open & Shut Case. In Houston, after he was picked up for speeding and escaped from the cop who nabbed him, Daniel Martin was arrested again by the same cop, fined $15 for stealing a pair of handcuffs, despite his plea: "He put them on me. I just left...
...California cop (Van Heflin), checking a routine complaint about a house prowler, takes a shine to the complainant (Evelyn Keyes), a nervously bored housewife whose well-to-do and aging husband works as an all-night disc jockey. Loyal but lonely, she resists Heflin as long as she can, finally succumbs to him in an affair carried on against the background of her husband's chirrupy voice plugging commercials on the radio...
Unlike most melodramas, The Prowler makes its principals recognizable human beings who, despite some obvious dialogue and a few unnecessary twists of a sensational plot, stay consistently within their well-drawn characterizations. The cop is a sharp little study in malcontent, cupidity and vulgar taste; his fondest ambition is to own a motel so he can earn money even while he sleeps. Yet he is also a man in love and nagged by some decent urges. Actor Heflin fills the character to the last nuance. The woman, ably played by Actress Keyes, is a pathetic, guilt-ridden dupe who craves...
...presumably qualify for abbreviation as P-men). When a post-office inspector is murdered, Inspector Ladd gets the job of running down the killers. He finds his suspects planning a foolproof $1,000,000 postal robbery, joins the gang's conspiracy in the guise of a bribe-hungry cop. Ladd's risky masquerade finally lands him in a mess that only fists, bullets and fast footwork can straighten out, but not before the picture works its familiar story into well-tied knots of suspense...